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Watch: Elbow - “Magnificent (She Says)” Video

Little Fictions Due Out February 3, 2017 via Concord

Dec 15, 2016By Christopher Roberts

Elbow are releasing a new album (their seventh), Little Fictions, on February 3, 2017 via Concord. Now the previously shared beautiful first single, "Magnificent (She Says)," has an equally stirring video. Joe Connor directed the clip, which was filmed in Asia and centers on the experiences of a little girl and other children. It's really all quite lovely. Watch it below, followed by the band's U.K. tour dates.

Little Fictions is the Manchester, England band's first album without drummer and founding member Richard Jupp, who left the band earlier this year to focus on other creative projects, including his drum school. A press release says this forced the band to take "new approaches to rhythm," with the band "utilizing percussive noises, sampling, and loops to build tracks." The album is also described as upbeat and joyous. The album was written collaboratively by all four members, first in a house in Scotland and then in frontman Guy Garvey's attic, before being recorded in the Blueprint Studios in Salford, near Manchester. The album features the string players of The Hallé Orchestra, the Hallé Ancoats Community Choir, members of London Contemporary Voices, and session drummer Alex Reeves.